Overview

THE LEARNING CENTER

The Learning Center (TLC) utilizes educational technology, principally
computer based education, as the primary means of instruction. This enables
students to enjoy self-paced learning and assures that students will master
all subjects. Teaching by lecture will be retained for some subject matter
but generally the role of the teacher has changed. TLC teachers are mentors,
facilitators, guides and counselors, rather than presenters. "The teacher
is becoming the guide on the side rather than the sage on the stage" [Ken
King, Educom Conference]

Such implementations have already proven to result in more highly motivated
students who enjoy their school participation more, and produce better
results. Also, it has actually increased the level of personal interaction
between student and teacher. There has been an average 380% increase per
week in concentrated one-on-one teacher/student interaction in some learning
centers.

Classrooms can easily be structured to provide learning stations to
fully utilize the opportunity for independent or team learning that these
new technologies allow. TLC administration is facilitated by a client/server
which automatically monitors much of the activity in the school providing
access to current data pertaining to student/teacher progress for use
by teachers, administrators, parents, and students.

Some non-TLC teachers interviewed feel that the client/server and TLC
may save as much as 60 to 80 percent of their time allowing more personal
interaction with the students as indicated above. TLC involves parents
and community in decision making as well as continuing adult education
by community access to the network.

Furthermore, operating the school day and night doubles the capacity
of the existing environment. Home access to the network [The Buddy System,
Indiana State project through governor's office] also enhances the capacity
of the school. Network time can be leased to local industry for training
and apprenticeship programs. In opposition to new construction, this implementation
will save millions of dollars as well as provide an income source and
more than triple the student handling capacity of any existing school.

The capability of computerized administration enables a greater and
more accurate student tracking capacity than the current system. Parents
can send and receive e-mail with schools, examine teacher/ student schedules
and view progress reports without disrupt­ing school administration, allowing
flexibility and convenience in planning. Studies show that TLC students
are more likely to go to college, have higher attendance rates, higher
self-esteem and almost never drop out. Telecommuting and independent learning
is the way of the future.

THE SOCIAL CURRICULUM

"Any approach to human problems now requires attention and understanding
of not just one, but all levels, and solutions will require knowledge
in all realms [Jonas Salk, World Population & Human Values]."

The Social Curriculum incorporates a multi-interdisciplinary approach
directed at eliminating the causative factors that are the genesis of
most of what ails us as an industrial born society. Since the effects
of the shift from the agrarian age to the industrial age are similar in
all societies, it stands to reason that the solution will share commonalities
in effected areas.

The dynamics of change in our current state of transformation demand
that individuals accurately discern circumstance with reduced singular
bias. The Social Curriculum empowers one's ability to observe a given
situation from multiple perspectives and thereby achieve a greater level
of understanding. The goal is to educate society, specifically children
and parents, in the dynamics that pertain to understanding the development
of individual biases and the nature of system dynamics in relationships
and evolution.

THE PATH PROJECT

PATH (Progressive Approach to Training Habilitation) is a program designed
to address the manifestations of systemic social dysfunction. This will
deal with direct understanding of environmental aspects of behavioral
influence including the affects on neurochemistry, biochemistry, metabolism,
habituations, obsessive, compulsive, addictive disorders and physical
manifestations, in fact any influence that may manifest in behavior and
the physical self.